If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL So much f***ing winning.🤬 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-... - ThreadSky

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scottzona.bsky.social • 22 days ago

If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL

So much f***ing winning.🤬

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

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phreacks.bsky.social•22 days ago

I also use it daily, it's wonderful, especially for those who don't have easy access to historical bibliography. I'm sure someone with financial resources will save us from this madness.

botanistbriggs.bsky.social•22 days ago

Noooooooo!!!! I hadn’t heard this, thanks for sharing.

gilbertbystander.bsky.social•20 days ago

Read this and felt a bit less devastated. Am I missing something in thinking this may not be bad?

gilbertbystander.bsky.social•20 days ago

If one insane administration can ruin this, maybe it shouldn't be in the hands of any administration. Tall order, I know

nucifraga.bsky.social•22 days ago

I use it a lot too 😨

Didn't know that it was publicly funded, thought it was like wikipedia, private funded? How seriously will this affect it?

paton.bsky.social•22 days ago

They probably just did a search for the word "Diversity" and defunded everything that came up.

gilbertbystander.bsky.social•20 days ago

Omg yes

kroekermartin.bsky.social•22 days ago

Looking at the list of non-US partners, maybe Kew or the Chinese Academy of Sciences ? (And given the controversy about relocating the Kew Herbarium to some industrial area out of sight&mind, probably the Chinese ? Bet they're getting pissed at all the dropped balls they're expected to pick up...)🤬

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